Louisville has the world's largest bat..... the world's largest White Castle.....the world's largest Michelangelo statue.... the largest urban forest in the U.S.....the second longest pedestrian bridge in the U.S..... the world's most famous horse race track.....the largest air-conditioned space for any state fair in the U.S.... We love our city and area.

Here is another one for the list. The fossil beds at the Falls of the Ohio are among the largest displays of Devonian fossil beds in the world and the largest near a downtown area.

This is another gem of the Louisville area. I do not know of anywhere else in the country you can go and be at a place that looks like the surface of the moon and look up and see the downtown skyline.

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I stopped by today and was amazed at the number of hikers and kayakers and fishermen at the falls.

When the water level below the dam drops below 11 feet, the viewing of the fossils is excellent. The current level is just under 10.5 feet.

The forecast is for the river level to stay under 11 feet through at least Thursday.Until we get a decent rain, the river will stay low.

The 7 day rain forecast from the WPC is for very little rain here or upstream from Louisville.

I can remember a few times when the river dropped as low as 9.7 feet so this is nowhere near a record, but there is plenty of exposed rock which means there are plenty of exposed fossils.

Again the current level is at 10.45 feet.During the 1997 flood the level below the dam reached 70 feet and during the 1937 flood it reached 85 feet.